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Till Iii 10 with Thee to sing,
Cory, glory, glory!
-Phoebe Cary.
What Docs Sin Mean!
Does sin always mean anguish, and
fear, and remorsea No. not always
not always. Only as long as the light
Of God is within the soul, and the voice
of God speaks to the man. That light
may be put out. Thss voice may DO
silenced. And then man shall come
to laugh wild, untroubled laugh at
these things Right and wrong have
ceased to mean anything. Love is lust,
and truth is buta name; and purity is
but a hypocrite who wears white
robe, and friendship is only the dis
guise of selfshness. Oh. better thou
sand times the madness that raves at
the memory of sin, than that. The
eye that sees the truth is put out, the
ear that hears the voice of God, IS
stopped. Then the soul can 60 un-
troubled, unburdened. There is life
on earth so dark, so cold, so dead, so
Unconscious, so incapable of any moral
sense, that would sooner crave the
very fires of hell to create within me
some sense of right and wrong, than
sink into that worst of deaths, that
deepest Of dannation. No, no indeed,
that path cannot lead up to this blessed
ness.-E ERev. Mark Guy Pearse.
Conservation rnd VI N 'fncss.
The essence of true manliness lies in
living life of true conservation to God.
Loyalty to our noblest impulses, loyalty
to our highest reason, loyalty to the
clear intimations of conscience, are syn
onvmous with entire and ceasolcss de-
votion to the holy will OF God. That
threc-fold loyalty is necessary to the
cultivation of our highest manhood. We
have no means of developing now the
hcroism of the days Of chivalry. The
heroism which was fostercd in the midst
of imminent dangers, in eras OF martyr
dom, or times of civil war, cannot be
ours. But one kind of heroism is posi-
BILE to US all-that of standing by Gods
truth, Gods work, Gods day, and
Gods rcdeeming Son, no matter
what may be the consequences to our
selves.
All, whether saint or sinner, believer
or in6del, are agreed that We have hu-
manity at its climax in the life of Jesus
of Nazareth, and in that life we see the
will of the Christ entirely subordinated
to the will of his father, nay, the COM
plete blending of the two wills in one.
We see in that life a righteousness and a
burning hatred of sin which caused bad
men to shrink from his presence. a gen.
tlencss and bcnevolcnce which attracted
little children to his side, and holiness
and mercifulness which caused penitent
men and women to kneel at Ills feet in
blissful agony Of woe mingled with
hope. Yct great as He is. "the holiest
among the mighty, the mightiest among
the holy" He is our example, our su-
preme example. Oh. that we could get
the young men of this generation to be-
licve that New Testament Sainthood is
perfect msnliness.
There seems to be an idea prevalent
that to be an out-and-out Christian, to
carry our religion into the business and
into the family, as much as into the
chapel and the classroom, to give up all
sins, oil idolatrics and all questionable
things, about which we have grave
doubts, not to be forever clamor-
ing for our supposed "rights" and keep
ing a sharp eye on 'number one, not to
spend half our time in rubbing up to a
fine polish our miserable reputation and
self worship; but to go all lengths with
Christ, and for Christ,--it seems to be
thought by some that such course will
make man feeble and effeminate, and
unfit him for nineteenth century busi-
ness life. But is it so2 No; it is at
the devils caricature of holiness you
have been looking, not the Bible por-
traiture. Open the great Book! Read
the life of Samuel. judge and prophet;
read the story of Joseph, first the slave,
then the ruler of Egypt; read the ac-
count of Daniel, the praying, prime min
lister of Babylon; read Isaiah and John
the Baptist, and the tender, mighty
and immortal Paul; were these men
weaklings, incomplete developments OF
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light like good soldier; and if thou
sometimes fall through frallty, take
again greater strength than before,
trusting in thy more abundant grace;
and take heed of vain pleasing of thy
self and of pride Thomas kempIs.